Merriam-Webster has added 250 new words to their o...  ...m-Webster has added 250 new words to their online dictionary . Their selections say a lot about the times we li...  ..."ransomware" for tech. Politics made it into the dictionary -not the word itself, which has been there for a...

(Photo: QFamily)The origin of the doughnut is shro...  ...ing has become so common that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The following article is from the book Uncle John&...  ...egan publishing reference works, starting with a dictionary in 1893. The first Funk & Wagnalls Standard E...  ...Noah Webster created the 70,000-word An American Dictionary dictionary of American English. After Webster&...

If you look up Parmesan (cheese) at the Cambridge Dictionaries Online, and click the icon for an audio clip, you’ll find that it is pronounced exactly like the state named after William Penn. In case it gets correc...

In 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary crowned “selfie” as the Word of the Y...  ...t was “gif.” Now the folks behind the dictionary have announced the 2014 Word of the Year, and it&...

Merriam-Webster is adding 150 new words to its col...  ...Webster is adding 150 new words to its collegiate dictionary this year. You already know most of them, just fr...  ...real words. Does inclusion in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary make them real for you?"So many of these new word...

Oxford American Dictionaries has selected its annual "Word of the Year," and that word is GIF. You are already familiar with GIF as in Graphics Interchange Format, or this images that change and move. the Word of the Yea...

The folks at Oxford have added some new, modern wo...  ...some new, modern words. Not to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) itself, but to the Oxford Dictionary Online, which is what most of us use, anyway.Let&...  ...e also: recent words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary...

When London designers Ben West and...  ...Felix Heyes decided to create a visual dictionary of sorts, they knew exactly where to go: Google I...  ...le Images. The duo printed a 1,240-page dictionary using the first image that Google has f...  ...00 words you'd normally find inside...

Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED to you logophiles) added a new ent...  ...added a new entries into its venerable dictionary . I'm pretty sure you've heard of some of t...